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On their first Father's Day without him, Johnny Seibold's wife and daughter decided to celebrate his life by writing him a note and sending it to heaven. They attached the handwritten letter to a batch of balloons and released it at his grave.
"We thought the idea of sending balloons to heaven sounded good," said Siebold's wife Sandy, according to KFOR.
They even put instructions on the note, asking that if someone found the letter that they contact the mom and daughter. Turns out, that wasn't necessary.
A few hours later, Sandy and her daughter Saige made the 25-mile drive back to Cement, Oklahoma, from the nearby town where Johnny was buried.
When they got home, Saige walked to a pasture near their home, where she says she would work with her dad. There, tangled in the fence she found the letter she sent into the sky earlier that day.
"What are the chances?" Sandy said. "I think I started crying. It was just like it was a message from him."
Siebold died last May from pancreatic cancer.
"It has given us a lot of peace, and a we feel just really good about where he's at," Sandy said.
